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Definition of Medicinable
1. a. Medicinal; having the power of healing.
Definition of Medicinable
1. Adjective. (archaic) Medicinal; having healing properties. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Medicinable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medicinable
Literary usage of Medicinable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1873)
"Collation : Sig. a. four leaves, then A to M 4 in eights. The Freeling Copy.
In Brown Speckled Calf. DRANT (THOMAS).—A medicinable Morall, that is, ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1826)
"Experiments in consort touching the making herbs and fruits medicinable. 499.
The altering of the scent, colour, or taste of fruit, by infusing, mixing, ..."
3. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"... is full medicinable, but it is seldom found." This last is a curiously dark
touch of malevolence added to the generally repulsive character of the bird. ..."
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